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TexasTowelie

(116,810 posts)
Fri Sep 25, 2020, 04:37 PM Sep 2020

Mom tased for resisting arrest after refusing to wear mask or leave middle school football game

Schools in Logan, Oh., were forced into a lockdown Thursday due to protests, confirmed the Marietta Times. These protests were spurred by an incident that occurred Wednesday, in which a woman watching a middle school football game was tasered by a school resource officer for resisting arrest for not wearing a mask or leaving the campus. These protests were in support of the officer’s actions.

The woman, Alecia Kitts, was watching her son’s game in the bleachers with her mother, who was also not wearing a mask, says The Marietta Times. The two were approached by the school’s assistant principal, Adam Twiss, to comply with the mandatory face coverings policy despite being outside and socially distanced. The officer was also called upon to intervene.

In the video recorded by fellow game-watchers, Kitts can be seen resisting the school resource officer’s attempt to handcuff her. In the midst of the struggle, the resource officer tasers her in the back, causing her to fall to the ground and finally be subdued.

Kitts is seen in the video with a mask in her back pocket. ABC13 Houston reports that she refused to put it on due to her asthma.

Read more: https://www.pennlive.com/news/2020/09/protest-forms-outside-of-ohio-police-dept-after-woman-gets-tased-for-not-wearing-a-mask.html

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634-5789

(4,285 posts)
2. ABC13 Houston reports that she refused to put it on due to her asthma.
Fri Sep 25, 2020, 04:58 PM
Sep 2020

NOPE. I have asthma and wear a mask all the time and I have 30 years on that LIAR.

JDC

(10,490 posts)
7. My daughter also, and she attends socially distanced ballet and dance classes several times a week
Fri Sep 25, 2020, 05:45 PM
Sep 2020

All masked up for the duration.

This lady is sitting.

irisblue

(34,268 posts)
3. Given Logan Ohios well known history for racism, drugs and sex trafficking
Fri Sep 25, 2020, 05:06 PM
Sep 2020

I was surprised that news was about a mask refusal

crimycarny

(1,627 posts)
6. But if an innocent black man manhandled or killed by police
Fri Sep 25, 2020, 05:44 PM
Sep 2020

The same people defending this woman would say “if that black man would only have complied he would not have been killed/arrested/tased.” If you try to point out that the police had no right to arrest/tase/kill said black man, the answer is always “So? It’s simple, just comply and there is no issue”

But the same logic apparently doesn’t apply when this white woman is actually breaking the law by trespassing after being repeatedly asked to leave.

Buckeye_Democrat

(15,042 posts)
8. Slap her with "resisting arrest" too!
Fri Sep 25, 2020, 05:49 PM
Sep 2020

I just watched the video, and she was resisting more than a lot of black victims that I've seen.

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